Just a guy in Vermont trying to connect all the dots...
Dan York
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Dec 08
Heading to Boston for USENIX LISA 2011 Conference Dec 8 and 9
IPv6, DNSSEC, RPKI, etc.: What’s the Holdup and How Can We Help?You’re busy. We get it. This industry moves fast and you’ve got your hands full keeping your networks updated and secure from the threat of the day. But why is it taking so long to deploy IPv6, DNSSEC, and other standards coming out of the IETF? These standards are the future of the Internet, but deployment to date has been slow.
He'll be outlining the new ISOC project of which I am a part that aims to help speed up the deployment of these standards - and asking for feedback and help. I will be there along with another team member, Megan Kruse, to talk with folks about the project and interact with people involved with IPv6, DNSSEC and other technologies.
It's been a good number of years since I last attended a USENIX conference but I'm very much looking forward to getting back with the crowd. Looks like some excellent technical talks so I'm looking forward to learning a good bit.
If you are down at LISA, please do feel free to drop me a note - or find me on Twitter. I expect I'll be tweeting out of the event and probably posting some thoughts and comments.
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Dec 07
Slides: Does Anyone Really Give a _____ About VoIP Security?
Does anyone really give a (insert favorite profanity) about VoIP security? That was the key question I asked in the presentation I have to the recent 2011 ITT Real-Time Communications Conference. Technically, my talk with titled "The State of VoIP Security", but I decided to have a little bit of fun with it.
It was an enjoyable session and I recorded a video that I hope that I can make the cycles to produce and upload sometime soon.
Meanwhile, the slides for my talk are now online, although given my style they really need audio or video. Still, you can get a sense of what I covered:
The State of VoIP Security, a.k.a. “Does Anyone Really Give A _____ About VoIP Security?"
View more presentations from Dan York
P.S. If you would like to have me give a presentation like this at an event you are involved with, please contact me. I'm frequently presenting and always open to speaking at new venues.
Dec 07
The State of VoIP Security, a.k.a. “Does Anyone Really Give A _____ About VoIP Security?”
Does anyone really care about VoIP security? Why should they? What are the main issues? At the 2011 Real-Time Communications Conference sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Dan York spoke about all these questions and gave a view of the overall state of the industry. A video recording of the Oct 5, 2011, session will be available and will be able to be found at http://www.voipsa.org/blog/ when it is ready.
Dec 07
The State of VoIP Security, a.k.a. “Does Anyone Really Give A _____ About VoIP Security?”
Does anyone really care about VoIP security? Why should they? What are the main issues? At the 2011 Real-Time Communications Conference sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Dan York spoke about all these questions and gave a view of the overall state of the industry. A video recording of the Oct 5, 2011, session will be available and will be able to be found at http://www.voipsa.org/blog/ when it is ready.
Dec 07
New Github for Mac 1.1 Release Nov 23rd…
I just noticed yesterday that a new version of Github for Mac was released on November 23rd. The blog post about the 1.1 release highlights the major changes as:
- The “Changes” view has been completely redesigned.
- The ability from the GUI to commit individual lines of code.
- A “Commit & Sync” feature so that you have just one step to get your code on Github (or wherever it is hosted).
- Full screen support for Lion.
- Tracking repositories if they are moved or renamed.
I’ve gone ahead and downloaded Mac for Github 1.1 and am looking forward to seeing how it works.
P.S. And yes, being perhaps old-skool, I mostly use the command line to work with git. But there are times when a GUI is nice, particularly when looking at changes between versions.
Dec 06
New version 0.1.3 of Tropo-webapi-python: Build Tropo voice/SMS/IM/Twitter apps using python
My former colleague Justin Dupree just posted a new version of the Tropo-webapi-python package to Pypi at:
To install the package, assuming you have pip installed, you should be able to just type:
pip install tropo-webapi-python
and then you can get started building Tropo applications that use voice, SMS, IM or Twitter as channels to communicate with people. The documentation for the Tropo WebAPI provides a full explanation of the API and also sample applications. Samples are also provided in the distribution.
The “tropo-webapi-python” package lives on Github at:
and those of you wanting to live on the edge can simply clone the repository from Github and use it there.
I’ll also mention that at this point I’ve completely stepped away from the maintenance of this ‘tropo-webapi-python’ package (as I’m no longer with Voxeo) and Justin and the Voxeo Labs team are now maintaining the package.
Have fun with it! I definitely enjoy creating Tropo apps using python!
Dec 05
What Is The Future of the PSTN? FCC Holding Workshops Dec 6th and 14th
As I recently wrote over on CircleID, the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is holding two workshops on this topic of what comes next for the PSTN.
The first workshop, tomorrow, December 6, 2012, will cover "what obstacles and opportunities the transition may create regarding public safety, accessibility, and ubiquitous service".
The second workshop on December 14, 2012, will cover "a wide array of economic, technological, and policy issues that need to be addressed as consumers choose to subscribe to, and rely on, new technologies and services."
The FCC's Public Notice about these PSTN Transition Workshops contains information about how to attend, both in person and via the FCC's live stream at http://www.fcc.gov/live.
The meeting tomorrow will begin at 9:00 am US Eastern time.
If you are in the Washington, DC, area and able to get to these workshops, it may be a great opportunity to join with others in expressing to the FCC a vision for what we want for the post-PSTN communications infrastructure.
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Dec 05
Borders, In Bankruptcy, Aims To Sell 65,536 IPv4 Addresses at $12/Address (Featured Blog)
With IPv4 address exhaustion upon us, it appears that the going market rate for IPv4 addresses is now $12/address. Over at the Register, Kevin Murphy reports on a bankruptcy filing from Borders seeking to sell a /16 block of to healthcare software vendor Cerner for a total of $786,432. At $12 per IPv4 address, this sets a new public record given that the previous high was Microsoft's acquisition of a block of Nortel IPv4 addresses... More...
Dec 02
Unix Turns 40 – And IEEE Provides a Historical Look Back
As the Unix operating system turns 40 this year, writer Warren Toomey published an excellent historical piece in this month’s IEEE spectrum:
The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix: The classic operating system turns 40, and its progeny abound
I’ve been using Unix myself in various forms since the mid-1980’s. Much of my time was, of course, spent in the land of Linux… but even now I’m writing this post on an operating system that evolved out of that early Unix work (Mac OS X).
It is very hard to understate the role that Unix has played in our technology history… and this post provides some nice stories from those early days.
Well worth a read… (I say while stroking my beard that is now definitely grey… 🙂
Dec 02
Today’s VUC Call – Philippine Phone Phreaking Funding Terrorists
For those interested in telecommunications security, today's (Dec 2, 2011) VoIP Users Conference (VUC) call at 12 noon US Eastern will cover the recent arrests of 4 Philippine men who defrauded AT&T of close to $2 million and were employed by an alleged terrorist organization who was using the proceeds of the scam to fund their activities.
Eric Klein of Humbug Labs will be the guest on the VUC call discussing this and other fraud issues. It should be an interesting discussion.
You can join the live call via SIP, Skype or the regular old PSTN. There is also an IRC backchannel that gets heavy usage during the call. It will be recorded so you can always listen later.
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